Chapter 441: Infighting
After Chen Jiang and Yu Ze entered the city, Li Shao brought people to meet them and said to them: "Thank you for your hard work, General Gongsun ordered me to wait for you here and ask you to see him immediately as soon as you return to the city."
The two of them did not suspect that they were cheating, so they said openly: "Please ask Captain Li to lead the way in front."
Seeing that the two of them had taken the bait, Li Shao hurriedly said to Sun Kang and Zhang Ji: "You two bring the two generals' troops to the military camp, and then go to the prefect's mansion to meet with someone."
How to capture Chen Jiang, Yu Ze, Li Shao and others, had already carefully planned. He asked Sun Kang and Zhang Ji to take their troops to the military camp, while he ambushed a group of people on the way and unexpectedly took Chen Jiang and Yu Ze.
When Li Shao brought Chen Jiang and Yu Ze and the others came to a street from the prefect's mansion, they suddenly stopped their mounts. Chen Jiang asked curiously: "Person Li, why don't you leave?"
"You have already arrived at the place!" Li Shao said coldly.
"Isn't there a street away from the prefect's mansion?" Yu Ze said in confusion: "Why did you talk about the place?"
"Two generals, I'm talking about where you are on the road." After Li Shao said that, he raised his voice and shouted: "Come here!"
With his shouts, countless soldiers holding spears rushed out from the alleys on both sides of the street, surrounding Chen Jiang, Yu Ze and their entourage.
Seeing that he was surrounded by a group of soldiers, Chen Jiang felt an ominous feeling in his heart. He asked with a stern face: "Li Shao, what are you doing?"
Li Shao snorted coldly, then said, "According to General Gongsun's order, you two traitors who colluded with Jizhou, and put them in a prison and then deal with it." After that, he waved his hand and ordered his subordinates to "take them all."
Following Chen Jiang, Yu Ze's followers were willing to let the other party catch their master, and immediately pull out the sword from his waist and fight with the soldiers holding the spear. But they forgot that the spear soldiers were originally the nemesis of the cavalry, not to mention that the cavalry stopped and remained motionless, it was a huge target.
After half a pin of incense, more than 20 followers of Chen Jiang were stabbed off the horse by spears and corpses were placed on the streets. The spearmen who besieged them only killed two people and injured seven or eight people. The spearmen killed the followers and were ready to attack Chen Jiang, but Yu Ze, but was stopped by Li Shao: "Okay, take them down, put them in prison, and wait for General Gongsun to deal with them."
After putting Chen Jiang and Yu Ze in prison, Li Shao went to report to Gongsun Fan. He said proudly: "Report to the general, his subordinates have already put Chen Jiang and Yu Ze in prison. It is not too late to wait until we break the Jizhou army and then punish them with the Ming Zhengpao."
Gongsun Fan nodded slightly, and then said, "The two of them have more than 10,000 troops under their command, so they must settle down. At the same time, they must block the news and not let anyone know that we have locked up Chen Jiang and Yu Ze. Otherwise, the army will easily cause mutiny."
"Please rest assured to this," Li Shao assured Gongsun Fan: "I have arranged for Sun Kang and Zhang Ji to be responsible for handling this matter. I believe that they have firmly grasped the troops of Chen Jiang and others in our hands at this moment. Do you think Chen and Jiang need to deal with it?"
"No, as long as Chen Jiang and Yu are in our hands." Gongsun Fan said carelessly: "The people under both of them dare not act rashly."
"Prince Li," Gongsun Fan continued, "The vanguard of the Jizhou Army has arrived outside Huangxian City. Tell me, should we hold on to the city and wait for assistance, or take the initiative to attack."
"General," Li Shao had heard the story of Guan Yu killing Hua Xiong with warm wine, but he always thought it was a rumor. If he really had such a skill, why was he still just a horse archer? It was precisely because Guan Yu's status was too humble that Li Shao always looked down on him. After hearing Gongsun Fan's question, he immediately replied: "I think Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are just small horse archers in Pingyuan County. Even if they are superb martial arts, how capable can they have? When the generals lead their troops out of the city tomorrow, they will kill them."
Gongsun Fan's understanding of Guan Yu also remained on his low status, so when he heard Li Shao like this, he immediately believed it. He looked at Li Shao and said, "Tomorrow, you will lead 8,000 troops out of the city to fight, only win but not lose!"
He was overjoyed when he got Gongsun Fan and planned to lead 8,000 troops out of the city. No matter what, he had never commanded so many people, so he hurriedly thanked Gongsun Fan: "Thank you, General! My subordinates will definitely not disappoint you."
The next morning, when he learned that Guan Yu was fighting outside the city, Gongsun Fan sent Li Shao to take his men out of the city to meet the enemy. Li Shao lit up eight thousand men, opened the city gate, and went out of the city to meet the enemy. In order to boost morale, Li Shao deliberately belittled Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's ability before going to the battle, so that the soldiers who followed him out of the city thought that this battle was without any suspense.
Li Shao led his troops out of the city. Seeing that more than a dozen square formations had been laid in the distance. When the defenders in the city came out to form the formation, Guan Yu did not take the opportunity to attack. Instead, he patiently waited for the other party to set up the formation and prepared to win the decisive battle. Seeing that Guan Yu was still moving, Zhang Fei couldn't help but feel anxious and asked quickly: "Second brother, take advantage of the chaos of the enemy, we will kill us!"
"Yide doesn't have to worry." Guan Yu stroked his long beard and said disdainfully: "There are just a group of native chickens and tile dogs on the other side. Even if we set up a formation, as long as we rush over, we can kill them without leaving any armor." Although the leader of the Youzhou Army was not very good, the soldiers were well-trained. They only took half a stick of incense to complete the array outside the city.
Seeing that the Youzhou army had finished arraying, Guan Yu raised the big knife in his hand high and shouted: "Beat the drum, attack!"
As his order was issued, the war drum was ringing, and eight square arrays began to move forward. Each square array was two thousand people, one hundred people in a row, with a total of twenty columns.
Seeing that the Jizhou army began to attack, Li Shao quickly shouted: "Arrowser is ready!" After hearing the order, the archers standing on both sides of him immediately stepped forward, took the bow and took the arrow, and waited for the opponent's military formation to approach, and then they could shoot the arrow. When the eight square formations entered the land of an arrow, Li Shao shouted: "Arrows!" At the same time, he swung the sword in his hand downwards.
Countless arrows broke out of strings, and after drawing an arc in the air, they fell into the moving Jizhou army. The sword and shield hand, who were walking in the front, immediately raised the shield in his hand to block the flying bows and arrows. Most of the arrows were blocked, but there were still many arrows that shot the marching Jizhou soldiers.
After Chen Jiang and Yu Ze entered the city, Li Shao brought people to meet them and said to them: "Thank you for your hard work, General Gongsun ordered me to wait for you here and ask you to see him immediately as soon as you return to the city."
The two of them did not suspect that they were cheating, so they said openly: "Please ask Captain Li to lead the way in front."
Seeing that the two of them had taken the bait, Li Shao hurriedly said to Sun Kang and Zhang Ji: "You two bring the two generals' troops to the military camp, and then go to the prefect's mansion to meet with someone."
How to capture Chen Jiang, Yu Ze, Li Shao and others, had already carefully planned. He asked Sun Kang and Zhang Ji to take their troops to the military camp, while he ambushed a group of people on the way and unexpectedly took Chen Jiang and Yu Ze.
When Li Shao brought Chen Jiang and Yu Ze and the others came to a street from the prefect's mansion, they suddenly stopped their mounts. Chen Jiang asked curiously: "Person Li, why don't you leave?"
"You have already arrived at the place!" Li Shao said coldly.
"Isn't there a street away from the prefect's mansion?" Yu Ze said in confusion: "Why did you talk about the place?"
"Two generals, I'm talking about where you are on the road." After Li Shao said that, he raised his voice and shouted: "Come here!"
With his shouts, countless soldiers holding spears rushed out from the alleys on both sides of the street, surrounding Chen Jiang, Yu Ze and their entourage.
Seeing that he was surrounded by a group of soldiers, Chen Jiang felt an ominous feeling in his heart. He asked with a stern face: "Li Shao, what are you doing?"
Li Shao snorted coldly, then said, "According to General Gongsun's order, you two traitors who colluded with Jizhou, and put them in a prison and then deal with it." After that, he waved his hand and ordered his subordinates to "take them all."
Following Chen Jiang, Yu Ze's followers were willing to let the other party catch their master, and immediately pull out the sword from his waist and fight with the soldiers holding the spear. But they forgot that the spear soldiers were originally the nemesis of the cavalry, not to mention that the cavalry stopped and remained motionless, it was a huge target.
After half a pin of incense, more than 20 followers of Chen Jiang were stabbed off the horse by spears and corpses were placed on the streets. The spearmen who besieged them only killed two people and injured seven or eight people. The spearmen killed the followers and were ready to attack Chen Jiang, but Yu Ze, but was stopped by Li Shao: "Okay, take them down, put them in prison, and wait for General Gongsun to deal with them."
After putting Chen Jiang and Yu Ze in prison, Li Shao went to report to Gongsun Fan. He said proudly: "Report to the general, his subordinates have already put Chen Jiang and Yu Ze in prison. It is not too late to wait until we break the Jizhou army and then punish them with the Ming Zhengpao."
Gongsun Fan nodded slightly, and then said, "The two of them have more than 10,000 troops under their command, so they must settle down. At the same time, they must block the news and not let anyone know that we have locked up Chen Jiang and Yu Ze. Otherwise, the army will easily cause mutiny."
"Please rest assured to this," Li Shao assured Gongsun Fan: "I have arranged for Sun Kang and Zhang Ji to be responsible for handling this matter. I believe that they have firmly grasped the troops of Chen Jiang and others in our hands at this moment. Do you think Chen and Jiang need to deal with it?"
"No, as long as Chen Jiang and Yu are in our hands." Gongsun Fan said carelessly: "The people under both of them dare not act rashly."
"Prince Li," Gongsun Fan continued, "The vanguard of the Jizhou Army has arrived outside Huangxian City. Tell me, should we hold on to the city and wait for assistance, or take the initiative to attack."
"General," Li Shao had heard the story of Guan Yu killing Hua Xiong with warm wine, but he always thought it was a rumor. If he really had such a skill, why was he still just a horse archer? It was precisely because Guan Yu's status was too humble that Li Shao always looked down on him. After hearing Gongsun Fan's question, he immediately replied: "I think Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are just small horse archers in Pingyuan County. Even if they are superb martial arts, how capable can they have? When the generals lead their troops out of the city tomorrow, they will kill them."
Gongsun Fan's understanding of Guan Yu also remained on his low status, so when he heard Li Shao like this, he immediately believed it. He looked at Li Shao and said, "Tomorrow, you will lead 8,000 troops out of the city to fight, only win but not lose!"
He was overjoyed when he got Gongsun Fan and planned to lead 8,000 troops out of the city. No matter what, he had never commanded so many people, so he hurriedly thanked Gongsun Fan: "Thank you, General! My subordinates will definitely not disappoint you."
The next morning, when he learned that Guan Yu was fighting outside the city, Gongsun Fan sent Li Shao to take his men out of the city to meet the enemy. Li Shao lit up eight thousand men, opened the city gate, and went out of the city to meet the enemy. In order to boost morale, Li Shao deliberately belittled Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's ability before going to the battle, so that the soldiers who followed him out of the city thought that this battle was without any suspense.
Li Shao led his troops out of the city. Seeing that more than a dozen square formations had been laid in the distance. When the defenders in the city came out to form the formation, Guan Yu did not take the opportunity to attack. Instead, he patiently waited for the other party to set up the formation and prepared to win the decisive battle. Seeing that Guan Yu was still moving, Zhang Fei couldn't help but feel anxious and asked quickly: "Second brother, take advantage of the chaos of the enemy, we will kill us!"
"Yide doesn't have to worry." Guan Yu stroked his long beard and said disdainfully: "There are just a group of native chickens and tile dogs on the other side. Even if we set up a formation, as long as we rush over, we can kill them without leaving any armor." Although the leader of the Youzhou Army was not very good, the soldiers were well-trained. They only took half a stick of incense to complete the array outside the city.
Seeing that the Youzhou army had finished arraying, Guan Yu raised the big knife in his hand high and shouted: "Beat the drum, attack!"
As his order was issued, the war drum was ringing, and eight square arrays began to move forward. Each square array was two thousand people, one hundred people in a row, with a total of twenty columns.
Seeing that the Jizhou army began to attack, Li Shao quickly shouted: "Arrowser is ready!" After hearing the order, the archers standing on both sides of him immediately stepped forward, took the bow and took the arrow, and waited for the opponent's military formation to approach, and then they could shoot the arrow. When the eight square formations entered the land of an arrow, Li Shao shouted: "Arrows!" At the same time, he swung the sword in his hand downwards.
Chapter completed!